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Metro Detroit curbside handover

A driver brings it curbside, then comes back for it.

One driver, one address, one short handover on the street outside. You never leave the block you live on to start a rental, or to end one.

See what we drive out Ask for a drop
A row of rental cars parked across marked bays, seen from above and off to one side under the lot pole lights.
FromOur lot ViaOne driver, one trip ToYour street
Drive out
To the street you name
Drive back
From the same street
Handover
On the sidewalk, standing up
On this page
16 of a 60+ fleet

Everything we drive out

Cheapest first. Every card here jumps to rochester.rentals, which holds the calendar and the checkout.

Open the fleet

The operator puts its fleet at 60+ vehicles. 16 appear below, read from the dashboard as this page was written and refreshed again once it loads.

What arriving actually looks like

A driver leaves with your car, drives it to the street you gave us, and stands there until the paperwork is done and the keys are in your hand. That is the whole transaction. None of it happens at a rental desk, because there is not one to walk into. When the days you booked run out the same trip runs backwards: a driver returns to the address, walks around the car on the street, and takes it away. What you are paying for is the drive out and the drive back wrapped around whichever car you picked. The cars are the company's own, and so are the drivers.

The same cars from directly overhead in flat daylight, lined up one per bay with the painted lines running between them.

Both directions are ours

We arrive on the street you named and, at the end, we leave from it. Nobody has to follow you across town in a second car so you have a ride home afterwards.

Read the run

Settled before we set off

The days, any delivery charge and the tax are totalled on the booking page and paid there. Nothing is collected on the sidewalk, because there is no desk out there to collect it at.

Open the fleet

You choose off the list, not off a lot

Anything the fleet page is publishing can be driven out here, at the daily rate printed beside it. What you choose is what parks outside.

Open the fleet

Four moves, and three of them are ours.

  1. Pick the car and the days

    The fleet page carries a daily rate against every vehicle and shows which dates are still open. That is where the choice is made.

  2. Send one street address

    A house, an office lot, a parking deck, or the garage that currently has your own car in pieces. One address and one time is all we work from.

  3. Meet the driver outside

    Whoever drives it out has put fuel in it and cleaned it before setting off, so what stops outside is ready to be driven away. We read your license, you sign, the keys move across, and the driver's part of it is finished. You are already where you wanted to be.

  4. Leave it where it landed

    When the last day you booked is up, a driver returns to that same address and drives it off. You do not drive anywhere to end the rental.

Open the fleet Ask for a drop instead

Tell us the street.

Send an address and the days you want a car sitting outside it. It lands with dispatch, who decide which driver takes it out.

Rates, availability and the booking itself stay on rochester.rentals. Use this to ask, not to pay.

The particulars

Driven to
One street address you name, home or business, anywhere in the service area
Service area
Rochester Hills, Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Novi, Pontiac, Royal Oak, Southfield, Sterling Heights, Troy, Warren
Handover
Outside, on the street, with the license read before the keys move
Collection
From the address the car was driven to, at a time arranged with us beforehand
Payment
Days, any delivery charge and tax, totalled and paid on the booking page
Operated by
Rochester Car Rental, which owns these cars and employs the drivers. See the main site
Out for delivery today
16 of them, costing $55 to $945 for each day one is parked outside your address. Read off the dashboard while this page loaded
Minimum age
25. Nobody younger signs for one on the sidewalk, and the license the driver reads carries the name that paid for the booking

Questions people send first

Which address do you actually drive to?
The single street address typed into the booking. Give the one you will be standing outside that morning rather than the one printed on your card, because the driver is working from that line and nothing else. Where those addresses are allowed to sit is set out in the particulars above.
Do I have to take it back somewhere at the end?
No. A driver returns to collect it from the address it was driven to, at a time arranged with us beforehand. Leave it parked and the return trip is ours to make, which is the part that makes going without your own car for a stretch actually workable.
My own car is in for repair. Can the swap happen at the garage?
Yes. Send the garage address and the morning you are dropping your own car off, and the rental is standing there when you hand your keys over the counter. When the work is finished the same swap runs the other way at the same spot.
Who turns up, and how long does it take?
One driver, and they are on foot from the moment the vehicle is parked. Expect a short conversation on the sidewalk, a check that the driving license carries the name the booking was made in, and then they leave. It is a doorstep exchange rather than an appointment, and it ends with you standing beside something you can get straight into.
Will it fit where I park at home?
Worth deciding before you book, because the car sits outside your house for the whole booking rather than in a rental lot. No length is published against any listing, so there is no figure here worth trusting. What the list does show is the range, and if the space is tight you want something from the cheap end of it rather than the largest thing on there.
Is Detroit Metro Car Delivery a separate rental company?
No. It is Rochester Car Rental wearing a name that says what this page does. One operator, one fleet, and the drivers are on its payroll. Every vehicle listed here opens on rochester.rentals, and that is where booking and payment happen.

Give us a street and a morning.

We drive out, you sign on the sidewalk, and the car stays with you until we come back for it.

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